Hugo Bastidas “METAMORPHOSIS”

Nohra Haime Gallery

poster for Hugo Bastidas “METAMORPHOSIS”

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METAMORPHOSIS explores the idea of transformation and change throughout history. Building on metaphors apparent in literature and film, Bastidas uses depictions of water, passageways, and windows into space as omens to signify change.

Touched by recent natural disasters, Bastidas maximizes his painterly skills in “Trois After the Flood,” 2013-2014, to depict this real-life sanctuary as if it had flooded with water. A nod to what could have been, he creates a surreal environment that blurs the lines of reality to form a connection between an actual environmental disaster and imagined fiction.

Similarly, “You Can Get There From Here,” 2013, expresses change by bridging the gap between reality and fantasy. Bastidas uses an existing setting, densely wooded and thick with leaves, and alters it by integrating a bright, spacious opening. This simple window is a revolution that drives the painting from a narrative of mystery to illumination.

“11:45, The Swollen Seine,” 2013, takes a realistic approach and successfully documents a drowning French landscape at 11:45am. Flooded from unusually heavy rains, a nearly black bridge from the lack of sunlight appears, as it stands over a wide, rushing river. The stormy sky, which is actually smog produced from a nearby power plant, attests that no metaphor is needed in this scene, only reality.

Bastidas uses METAMORPHOSIS as an outlet to seek the alteration of truth. With the stroke of a brush, he questions what is and what could have been, and illustrates the potential shift in the plot of humanity.

[Image: Hugo Bastidas “DELUGE” (2013) oil on linen 80 x 80 in.]

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Schedule

from April 02, 2014 to May 10, 2014

Opening Reception on 2014-04-02 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Hugo Bastidas

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